[hpc-announce] CHEOPS 2025 - Call for Papers [Due Jan 10th, 2025]

[Amelie Chi Zhou]

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The fifth Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and
Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS)

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March 31st, 2025

Rotterdam,

Held in conjunction with EuroSys 2025

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We are pleased to announce the fourth Workshop on Challenges and
Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems (CHEOPS'25).
CHEOPS'25 will be hosted in conjunction with EuroSys'25.

The fifth workshop on “Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and
Performant Storage Systems” (CHEOPS) is aimed at researchers, developers of
scientific applications, engineers and everyone interested in the evolution
of storage systems. As the developments of computing power, storage and
network technologies continue to diverge, the bandwidth performance gap
between them widens. This trend, combined with the ever growing data
volumes and data-driven computing such as machine learning, results in I/O
and storage limitations, impacting the scalability and efficiency of
current and future computing systems. Some of these challenges are
quantitative, such as scale to match exascale system requirements, or
latency reduction of the software stack to efficiently integrate new
generations of hardware like storage class memory (SCM). Some other issues
are more subtle and arise with the increased complexity of the storage
solutions, like new smarter and more potent data management tools,
monitoring systems or interoperability between I/O components or data
formats.

The main objective of this workshop is to discuss state-of-the-art
research, innovative ideas and experiences that focus on the design and
implementation of storage systems in both academic and industrial worlds.

Topics of Interest

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Submissions may be more hands-on than research papers, so we explicitly
encourage submissions in the early stages of research. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

Operating system optimizations

Kernel and user space file/storage systems

Including virtual file systems

Cloud, parallel and distributed file/storage systems

Network challenges, such as scalability, QoS and partitionability

Approaches for low-latency and heterogeneous storage systems

Such as SCM and NVRAM combined with HDDs

Metadata management

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

Storage requirements of ML and AI applications

Using ML and AI within storage systems (e.g., to replace heuristics)

Hybrid solutions using file systems and databases

Approaches using query and database interfaces, including key-value stores

Optimized indexing techniques

Data organizations to support online workflows

Data privacy and data security

Domain-specific data management solutions

Application I/O characterization

Storage systems modeling and analysis tools

Data reduction techniques

Lossless and lossy compression, deduplication

UI/UX for storage systems

Related experiences from users: what worked, what didn’t?

Feedback and empirical evaluation of storage systems

Paper Submissions

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In order to guarantee the quality of the submissions, we have formed a
globally distributed, diverse program committee. All submissions will be
reviewed by the program committee. We will use HotCRP to manage the
submissions (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://cheops25.hotcrp.com/__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cHmTUIH7GwNOeqR2LNQym-2xILInTrhZ8UsVtpJe9ytXfbc_gWzRX_0FwT33Vi8uID9OOtCF6CIqRfiTQbt7TVuRIwL-$ ). The reviewing process will be
double-blind, with at least 3 reviews for each submission. An online
discussion will determine which papers to accept.

Only original and novel work not currently under review in other venues
will be considered for publication. Submissions can either be full papers
(6 pages) or short papers (4 pages). The page count includes the title,
text, figures, and appendices but excludes the references. They must be
submitted electronically as PDF files formatted according to the submission
rules of EuroSys (https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://2025.eurosys.org/index.html__;!!G_uCfscf7eWS!cHmTUIH7GwNOeqR2LNQym-2xILInTrhZ8UsVtpJe9ytXfbc_gWzRX_0FwT33Vi8uID9OOtCF6CIqRfiTQbt7TQqPyvLE$ ). Accepted
submissions will have to comply with the EuroSys proceedings format. One
author of each accepted paper is required to register for the workshop and
present the paper. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered
for publication in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review journal.

Important Dates

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Abstract Submission: January 10, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)

Paper Submission: January 17, 2025 (Anywhere on Earth)

Notification to Authors: February 7, 2025

Camera-Ready Deadline: February 28, 2025

Workshop Date: March 31, 2025


Workshop Organizers

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Steering Committee:

- Jean-Thomas Acquaviva - DDN, France

- Jalil Boukhobza - National Institute of Advanced Technologies of Brittany
(ENSTA Bretagne), France

- Suren Byna - The Ohio State University, USA

- Konstantinos Chasapis - DDN, France

- Kira Duwe - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland

- Shadi Ibrahim - Inria, France

- Michael Kuhn - Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg (OVGU), Germany

General Chair:

- Suren Byna - The Ohio State University, USA

Program Co-Chairs:

- Amelie Chi Zhou - Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong

- Kira Duwe - École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland